letter to fam about my health, mostly

my current goal is to walk 5 miles a day.

i have stopped all my medications except for my blood pressure medicine, mature daily vitamin, and extra strength tylenol as needed for pain. every time i went to the doctor, they would give me more medicine to take. i felt like i was a beaker in a chemistry class waiting to explode and disintegrate.

the wake up call for me was when i went to the pain management dr for a b12 shot because i found out my b12 was low. when i got there, he said he didn't have the shot then tried to give me ambien and 2 other medicines on top of the pain, diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, asthma meds i was already taking. i explained to him that i had researched low b12 and alot of the symptoms that i'm having sound like that will help me and that i would really like to reschedule and go with something natural if that is the cause. i was kind of insistent on it; therefore, he rescheduled. i decided i don't particularly care for/trust doctors at that point. don't get me wrong... i think his intentions were good... i just don't think he was treating the problem, just the symptoms.

in my research, i found that our bodies store b12 for 5 years; therefore, whatever is making my b12 low has to have started 5 years ago. it is rare in people my age. it can cause depression, fatigue, etc. i went back for my shot and found that the mature vitamins have 412% b12 in them. so, i have been taking those also. i had bad chest pains last weekend; because, i ran out of my blood pressure meds and ended up in the er. they said that my potassium is low also. so, i'll be looking into a natural solution for that. i imagine that the potassium is low because i've been losing weight at a rate of about 10 lbs a month. i am scared to have the surgery at this point; therefore, i'm just trying to change lifestyle and it seems to be working.

my back pain was terrible last night to the point where i couldn't walk; but, somehow, today i am ok. thank god. :-)